America, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience Author|Sean Dow Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers

Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers

1963 the infant son of John and Jacqueline Kennedy born premature at 34 weeks died of a common lung ailment after 39 hours of life

in order to uncover what you can become

quietly writhing around us

and someone who will be with them always to provide calm and strength

America, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience Author|Sean Dow Writing Exercises for Fiction WritersSoon after the 2016 presidential election, Sixteen Rivers Press, a shared work collective of Northern California poets, conducted a nationally advertised call for submissions, seeking unpublished poems that would "respond to the cultural, moral, and political rifts that now divide our country: poems of resistance and resilience, witness and vision, that embody what it means to be a citizen in a time when our democracy is threatened." In a matter of